I was glancing through the mod log and saw these two entries. Conspiracy theory communities were both removed for violating rule #3.

What are these rules? If I look in the side bar, rule #3 on both lemmy.ml and sh.itjust.works to me looks like no porn. So why were conspiracy theory communities not allowed? That seems like kind of a community that shouldn’t be an issue on Lemmy… are conspiracy theory subs really something that won’t be allowed here? Honestly that’s kind of disturbing to see already…

  • CocktailPlasma@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    You do realize that conspiracy is far more than qanon stuff, right? It was an interesting sub to read from time to time on Reddit.

    And yeah, I get “just run your own instance”, but not everyone wants to deal with their own instance just to be able to freely browse communities without random censorship. I was hoping Lemmy wouldn’t be that way. Don’t know what it is about some people being so unable to tolerate opposing views from their own…

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      1 year ago

      Note the “similarly disproven” section.

      If there are fun, interesting, not comically disproven conspiracy theories/communities, I imagine they’d be welcome.

      Don’t know what it is about some people being so unable to tolerate opposing views from their own…

      No one should have to host your stupid nonsense. Just because I have a party, doesn’t mean I have to invite you.

      We want good conspiracies, not the dangerously stupid stuff. Hence, no Q nonsense.

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        1 year ago

        Go look in those communities. There’s MAYBE one post I can see you could consider “QAnon” type stuff. The rest are just general conspiracy related posts.

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          There’s MAYBE one post I can see you could consider “QAnon” type stuff.

          Okay, there you go?

          Also though, hpw does one brpwse removed communities? Jephoa isn’t finding anything.

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            Okay, there you go?

            Well, yeah, but is that really how instances are going to handle moderation? A single post they don’t like in a community on another instance and they just block that entire community from their instance? Seems pretty heavy handed.

            Not sure how on mobile, but on the computer you would have to visit a different instance in order to view one of those communities, and of course if you want to actually participate in it, you would have to create a second Lemmy login on that new instance.

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              but is that really how instances are going to handle moderation?

              You mean, is “is that how someone who is paying to do this out of their own pocket and spending their own time” going to handle moderation? And to answer the correctly phrased question, yes. I would want nothing to do with some subs. Were it drawings of child porn (so technically legal I think) how many images would be too many?

              Took a visit regardless, that sub seems wretched. Most have been deleted by their own mods, what’s left is “is the WHO the terrorist arm of the UN” which frankly, is dumb and dangerous enough that yeah, I’d count it.

              But at the end of the day, the same flexibility afforded to the volunteer running the instance is afforded to you! You can go, join an instance that supports your values. But you don’t get to demand that we all have our instance tainted by it. Should that balance switch and the moderation gets too heavy, we too can leave.

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      You can view those communities hosted on other instances from lemmy quite easily. Nothing stopping you. They just don’t want it on their instance.

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      Is it possible that the posts made on that specific community were specific to Qanon? As in, a conspiracy theory community wouldn’t be blocked just for being a conspiracy theory community. But if the community was flooded with Qanon specific posts, they might remove it because that’s specifically against rule #3.

      I’m in no way arguing for or against this, but wondering if that’s closer to the logic they followed. I would love a good old fashioned conspiracy community, but they do have a tendency to pull in a lot of crazies. Do we know what the posts are like?